Internet use by the socially fearful: Addiction or therapy?

Cyberpsychology and Behavior

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 69-81

  Campbell, Andrew J ^a   Cumming, Steven R ^a   Hughes, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSION ANXIETY AND STRESS SCALE; EYSENCK PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE REVISED SHORT SCALE; FEAR; FEAR OF NEGATIVE EVALUATION SCALE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET ADDICTION; INTERNET EFFECTS QUESTIONNAIRE; INTERNET USE QUESTIONNAIRE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RATING SCALE; RISK; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL SUPPORT; ZUNG DEPRESSION SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONELINESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; STATISTICS; TIME FACTORS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 33644933512     PISSN: 10949313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cpb.2006.9.69     Document Type: Article

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